Thislist of Princeton University people include notablealumni (graduates and attendees) or faculty members (professors of various ranks, researchers, and visiting lecturers or professors) affiliated withPrinceton University. People who have given public lectures, talks or non-curricular seminars; studied as non-degree students; received honorary degrees; or served as administrative staff at the university are excluded from the list. Summer school attendees and visitors are generally excluded from the list, since summer terms are not part of formal academic years.

Individuals are sorted by category and alphabetized within each category. The "Affiliation" fields in the tables in this list indicate the person's affiliation with Princeton and use the following notation:

• B indicates abachelor's degree
• Att indicates that the person attended the undergraduate program but may not have graduated
• AM indicates aMaster of Arts degree
• MPP indicates aMaster of Public Policy degree awarded by thePrinceton School of Public and International Affairs
• MPA indicates aMaster in Public Affairs degree awarded by thePrinceton School of Public and International Affairs
• MCF indicates completion of the Mid-Career Fellowship, a discontinued non-degree program of the Woodrow Wilson School^[1]
• MSE indicates aMaster of Science in Engineering degree awarded by the School of Engineering and Applied Science
• PhD indicates aPh.D. degree
• GS indicates that the person was a graduate student but may not have received a degree
• F indicates a faculty member, followed by years denoting the time of service on the faculty
• VS indicates a visiting scholar, followed by years of stay
• T indicates aTrustee of Princeton University, followed by years denoting the time of service
• Pres indicates aPresident of Princeton University, followed by years denoting the time of service

• Kyril, Prince of Preslav
• Prince Ali bin Hussein of theHashemite Kingdom of Jordan
• Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad
• Prince Moulay Hicham of Morocco
• Queen Noor of Jordan
• Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud

• James Millikin Bevans –U.S. Air Force Major General
• Alexander Bonnyman Jr., 1932 – World War IIMedal of Honor recipient killed in theBattle of Tarawa
• William L. Brandon, 1819 – Confederate Army general^[2]
• James Caldwell, A.B. 1759 –American Revolutionary soldier and chaplain
• Christopher G. Cavoli, A.B. 1987 – commander,United States European Command
• James Robb Church, 1888 –Medal of Honor recipient,Spanish–American War
• Kenneth F. Cramer, B.Litt. 1916, M.A. 1917 –United States ArmyMajor General andChief of the National Guard Bureau
• William J. Crowe (1925–2007), Ph.D. 1965 –U.S. Navy Admiral,Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff and American Ambassador to Great Britain
• Philip Dalton (1903–1941) M.S. 1925 – American Naval aviator and engineer, creator ofE6B analogflight computer
• Glen Edwards, M.S. 1947 –U.S. Air Forcetest pilot
• Joseph C. Fegan Jr., B.A. 1943 –United States Marine Corps Lieutenant general;World War II,Korea andVietnam
• Andrew Goodpaster, A.M. 1949, M.S.E. 1949, Ph.D. 1950 –Supreme Allied Commander, Europe forNATO
• Henry "Lighthorse Harry" Lee, A.B. 1773 – American Revolutionary cavalry officer, father ofRobert E. Lee
• Gordon Johnston, A.B. 1896 –Medal of Honor recipient,Philippine–American War
• Fumitaka Konoe – son of Japanese Prime MinisterFumimaro Konoe and lieutenant in theImperial Japanese Army in World War II
• Mark A. Milley, A.B. 1980 – U.S. Army General, 20thChairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• David Petraeus, M.P.A. 1985 Ph.D. 1987 – former commander ofInternational Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and United States Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A),USCENTCOM, andMulti-National Force – Iraq; formerDirector of the Central Intelligence Agency
• Nathaniel Scudder – physician and patriot leader during the Revolutionary War
• Blake Wayne Van Leer, M.S. 1959 – commander and captain in theU.S. Navy. LeadSeaBee program and lead the nuclear research and power unit atMcMurdo Station duringOperation Deep Freeze.
• Elliott White Springs, A.B. 1917 – World War I flying ace and memoirist
• Tamon Yamaguchi, 1921–1923 – Japanese Admiral

This section includes lists of notable academics who graduated from Princeton and notable Princeton faculty members.

• Nicholas Allard (born 1952), dean and president ofBrooklyn Law School
• E. Spencer Miller (1836), dean of theUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School
• Mark Steiner (1942–2020), professor of philosophy of mathematics and physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Albert Einstein was one of many scholars at the independentInstitute for Advanced Study not formally associated with the university but nevertheless closely linked to it.

• Stan Allen – former dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture; author ofPoints and Lines
• Elizabeth Diller – architect, professor ofarchitecture, winner ofMacArthur FoundationFellowship 1999–2004
• Michael Graves –professor emeritus
• Vincent Lee – architect, writer, mountaineer, and member of theInstitute of Andean Studies
• Paul Lewis – professor; associate dean; principal ofLTL Architects
• Sergey Padyukov – architect, engineer and human rights activist
• Monica Ponce de Leon – dean of the School of Architecture; WinnerNational Design Award
• Kazuyo Sejima – principal of Tokyo-based architecture firm SANAA
• Sarah Whiting – assistant professor and M.Arch thesis director; editor ofAssemblage andLog; principal ofWW Architecture

• Orley Ashenfelter – professor ofeconomics, winner of theFrisch Medal (1982)
• Ben Bernanke – professor of economics andpublic affairs;Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board
• William G. Bowen – professor emeritus of economics; president ofPrinceton University, 1972–1988; president ofThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 1988–2006
• Angus Deaton – professor of economics; president of theAmerican Economic Association;Nobel Prize in economics (2015)
• Avinash Dixit – professor of economics; co-author ofGames of Strategy; former president of theEconometric Society; 2008 president of the American Economic Association
• Aly Kassam−Remtulla – anthropologist, Vice Provost
• Gene Grossman – professor of economics
• Daniel Kahneman – professor of economics and psychology,Nobel Prize in economics (2002)
• Nobuhiro Kiyotaki – professor of economics; winner of the 1997Nakahara Prize of the Japan Economics Association and the 1999Yrjö Jahnsson Award of theEuropean Economic Association
• Alan Krueger – professor of economics
• Paul Krugman – professor of economics,New York Times columnist, winner of theJohn Bates Clark Medal,Nobel Prize in economics (2008)
• Arthur Lewis – former professor; Nobel laureate (Economics 1979)
• Burton Malkiel Ph.D. [1964] – professor of economics; former dean of theYale School of Management; author ofA Random Walk Down Wall Street
• Eric Maskin – professor of economics; Nobel Prize in economics (2007)
• Albert Rees – formerProvost, professor of economics and advisor to PresidentGerald Ford^[203]
• Harvey S. Rosen – professor of economics, former chairman ofCouncil of Economic Advisers
• Harold Tafler Shapiro – professor emeritus of economics, former president ofPrinceton University and of theUniversity of Michigan
• Christopher Sims – professor of economics; Nobel Prize in economics (2011)
• Lars E. O. Svensson – professor of economics;deputy governor of the central bank of Sweden; one of the ten best economists in the world according toIDEAS/RePEc

• Samuel Alito – associate justice,U.S. Supreme Court
• Bruce Alger – former U.S. Representative forTexas's 5th congressional district, based inDallas
• Charles Beitz – professor of politics
• Jeremy Ben-Ami – executive director of J Street and JStreetPac
• Cyril Edwin Black – professor of history and international affairs 1939–1986, director of theCenter of International Studies 1968–1985
• Willie Blount –Governor of Tennessee from 1809 to 1815^[204]
• Barbara Bodine – diplomat in residence
• Ken Buck – representative,Eastern Colorado, U.S. House of Representatives
• Thomas J. Christensen – William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace
• John E. Colhoun – U.S. Senator and lawyer from South Carolina
• Ted Cruz – U.S. Senator for Texas, 2013–present; candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination
• Angus Deaton – Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs, and professor of economics and international affairs, Woodrow Wilson School and department of economics
• Alexandra Davis DiPentima,chief judge of theConnecticut Appellate Court
• Robert Ehrlich – governor, Maryland, 2003–2007
• Richard Falk – Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, emeritus
• Aaron Friedberg – professor ofinternational relations
• Edgar S. Furniss Jr. – professor ofpolitical science
• Robert P. George – professor ofjurisprudence,constitutional law scholar
• Robert Gilpin – Eisenhower Professor of Public and International Affairs, emeritus
• Bob Giuffra – partner,Sullivan & Cromwell
• Jan Gross – professor of history
• Dale Ho (born 1977) –U.S. district judge of theU.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
• Thad Hutcheson (Class of 1937) – lawyer and Republican politician fromHouston,Texas
• Robert Hutchings – diplomat-in-residence
• G. John Ikenberry – Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs
• Harold James – professor ofHistory andInternational Affairs
• Elena Kagan, associate justice,U.S. Supreme Court
• Thomas Kean 48th governor of New Jersey and chairman of 9/11 Commission
• Nannerl O. Keohane – Laurance S. Rockefeller Distinguished Visiting professor of Public Affairs
• Robert Keohane – university professor ofinternational relations
• George Kern, 1947 – lawyer, partner atSullivan & Cromwell
• Daniel Kurtzer – diplomat-in-residence
• Nolan McCarty – Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs
• Helen Milner – B.C. Forbes Professor of Politics and International Affairs
• Hassan Ali Mire – first Minister of Education of theSomali Democratic Republic
• Robert Morrow (Class of 1987) – former Republican county chairman inTravis County, Texas
• Philip Pettit – professor of politics and philosophy
• Jay Powell – 16th chair of the Federal Reserve
• Uwe Reinhardt – James Madison professor ofpolitical economy
• Paul Sarbanes – former US Senator from Maryland
• Stephen Schulhofer (born 1942) – professor of law at theUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School andNYU Law School
• Reed Shuldiner – Alvin L. Snowiss Professor of Law at theUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School
• Anne-Marie Slaughter – dean of theWoodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
• Sonia Sotomayor, associate justice,U.S. Supreme Court
• John Thomas Steen Jr. – lawyer inSan Antonio and currently the 108thSecretary of State of Texas^[205]
• Isaac Tichenor, 1775 –Governor of Vermont, U.S. Senator^[206]
• Robert C. Tucker – IBM Professor of International Studies, emeritus
• John Waterbury – William Stewart Tod Professor of Politics and International Affairs, emeritus
• Joel Westheimer – professor of citizenship education at theUniversity of Ottawa
• Thomas Woodrow Wilson, A.B. 1879 – author of Congressional Government 1885; president of Princeton University, 1902–10; Governor of New Jersey, 1911–13; 28th president of the US, 1913–21; recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1919, for promoting the establishment of the League of Nations
• Sheldon Wolin – professor of politics

• Kwame Anthony Appiah – professor ofphilosophy
• Edward J. Balleisen (BA 1987) – professor of history atDuke University^[207]
• Peter Brown – professor of history
• Anthony Burgess – visiting professor, 1970–71; novelist and critic; author ofThe Long Day Wanes,A Clockwork Orange andEarthly Powers
• Américo Castro – professor of Hispanic literature
• Lisa R. Cohen – Ferris professor of journalism;Emmy Award-winning TVnews magazine producer, author
• Robert Darnton – emeritus professor of history
• Donald Davidson – professor ofphilosophy
• Jeff Dolven, professor of English at Princeton University.^[208]
• Selden Edwards – best-selling novelist, headmaster, teacher
• Jeffrey Eugenides – novelist, professor of creative writing and Pulitzer Prize Winner
• Robert Fagles – emeritus professor of English and comparative literature
• Denis Feeney – professor ofclassics,Giger Professor of Latin
• John V. Fleming – emeritus professor of English and comparative literature
• Hal Foster – art critic professor in the department of art and archeology
• Arthur Frothingham – professor of Art and Archaeology
• Emmet Gowin – professor ofphotography
• Anthony Grafton – professor of history
• Gilbert Harman – professor ofphilosophy, winner of theJean NicodPrize
• Winnie Holzman – dramatist, screenwriter, and poet
• William Howarth – professor of English andenvironmental studies
• Frank Cameron Jackson – professor of philosophy
• Walter Kaufmann – professor ofphilosophy
• Yusef Komunyakaa – poet, professor in the Creative Writing Program (Pulitzer Prize for Poetry)
• Saul Kripke – professor emeritus of Philosophy atPrinceton University; winner of the 2001Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy
• Mirjam Kuenkler – assistant professor ofNear Eastern Studies
• Victor Lange – professor of modern languages
• Paul Lansky – composer, professor of music
• Chang-Rae Lee – professor of writing,New York Times bestselling author
• David K. Lewis – professor ofphilosophy
• Perry Link – professor ofEast Asian Studies
• Toni Morrison – professor in the Creative Writing Program, Nobel laureate (Literature 1993)
• Paul Muldoon – professor of poetry, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Haruki Murakami – visiting professor, literature, creative writing
• Paul Needham – senior librarian at theScheide Library
• Alexander Nehamas – professor of philosophy
• Philip Nord – professor of history
• Joyce Carol Oates –Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities; professor in the Creative Writing Program; author; Pulitzer Prize nominee
• Elaine Pagels – professor of religion
• Francis Landey Patton – professor oftheology; president of the university, 1888–1902
• Ricardo Piglia – professor of Latin-American literature
• Thomas J. Preston Jr. – professor ofarcheology
• Albert J. Raboteau – Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion,Princeton University, former dean of the graduate school
• Noliwe Rooks – associate director of the African-American program at Princeton University, author^[209]
• Richard Rorty – professor ofphilosophy
• Carl Emil Schorske – emeritus professor of history, winner of the 1981Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his bookFin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture (1980)
• Ruth Simmons – vice provost, 1992–95^[210] – first female and first black president of any Ivy League school (Brown)
• Peter Singer – professor of human values, expert on practical ethics
• P. Adams Sitney – film historian, professor of visual arts
• Michael A. Smith – professor of philosophy
• Nigel Smith – professor of English
• Walter Terence Stace – professor ofphilosophy
• Donald Steven – Canadian composer, winner of the JUNO Award for Best Classical Composition and the Jules-Léger Prize
• Gregory Vlastos – professor ofphilosophy
• Andrew Fleming West –Giger Professor of Latin, 1883–1928; dean of the graduate school, 1900–1928
• Cornel West – professor of religion and Africa American studies
• C. K. Williams – professor of poetry, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Michael Wood – professor in the English department

• Forman S. Acton – professor ofcomputer science
• Philip Warren Anderson –Joseph Henry Professor ofPhysics and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
• Manjul Bhargava – Brandon Fradd, Class of 1983, professor of mathematics, 2014Fields Medalist
• Shane Campbell-Staton, professor of biology, principal investigator, Campbell-Staton Group
• John H. Conway – professor ofmathematics, best known for theGame of Life
• Ingrid Daubechies – professor of mathematics; namesake ofDaubechies wavelet
• Henry Eyring – professor ofchemistry, known for theEyring equation; recipient of theNational Medal of Science in 1966
• Charles Fefferman – professor of mathematics,Fields Medalist
• Val Fitch – professor emeritus of physics, Nobel laureate
• J. Richard Gott – professor of astrophysics, winner of the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching
• James E. Gunn – Eugene Higgins Professor ofAstronomy, leader of theSloan Digital Sky Survey and predicted the eponymousGunn–Peterson trough
• Joseph Henry – professor ofnatural philosophy
• Thomas H. Jordan – former professor of earth sciences; current director of theSouthern California Earthquake Center
• Mustapha Ishak Boushaki – professor of physics
• Karl Jöreskog – professor of statistics
• Celeste Rohlfing – Deputy Assistant Director at theNational Science Foundation and Chief Operating Officer at theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science
• Daniel Kahneman – Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, winner of the 2002Nobel Prize in Economics
• Nicholas Katz – professor of mathematics
• Brian Kernighan – co-author ofAWK andAMPL, author ofThe C Programming Language
• Elon Lindenstrauss – professor of mathematics, Fields Medalist
• Juan Martin Maldacena – professor emeritus of physics, 2012Fundamental Physics Prize
• Fernando Codá Marques – professor of mathematics
• George A. Miller – professor emeritus ofpsychology, seminal contributions incognitive psychology andcognitive science
• Gananath Obeyesekere – professor ofanthropology
• Andrei Okounkov – professor of mathematics, Fields Medalist
• Gerard K. O'Neill – professor of physics, leader in field ofspace colonization, author ofThe High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space
• Jeremiah Ostriker – professor ofastrophysics and recipient of theNational Medal of Science
• Philip James Edwin Peebles – professor emeritus of physics, one of the first to predict the nature of thecosmic microwave background radiation
• Peter Sarnak – professor of mathematics
• Nathan Seiberg – professor emeritus of physics, 2012Fundamental Physics Prize
• Paul Seymour – professor of mathematics
• Yigong Shi – professor ofmolecular biology, leader in the field ofapoptosis
• Osamu Shimomura – researcher honored with the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on GFP
• Goro Shimura – professor emeritus of mathematics, fundamental contributions tonumber theory andautomorphic forms, especially inLanglands program
• Yakov G. Sinai – professor of mathematics
• David Spergel – professor of astrophysics, leading astrophysicist
• Elias M. Stein – professor of mathematics, recipient of theSteele Prize (1984 and 2002), theSchock Prize in Mathematics (1993), theWolf Prize in Mathematics (1999), theNational Medal of Science (2002), andStefan Bergman Prize (2005)
• Paul Steinhardt – Albert Einstein professor of physics; recipient of the Dirac Medal (2002)
• Robert Tarjan – professor ofcomputer science, inventor of many algorithms related tograph theory, winner of the 1986Turing Award, recipient of the 1982Nevanlinna Prize
• Joseph Hooton Taylor – professor of physics, 1993Nobel Prize in Physics
• Daniel C. Tsui – professor of applied physics and electrical engineering, 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics
• John Archibald Wheeler – professor emeritus of physics, later collaborator ofAlbert Einstein, advisor toRichard Feynman andKip Thorne
• Eric Wieschaus – professor ofmolecular biology,Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Andrew Wiles – professor of mathematics, provedFermat's Last Theorem, winner of theSchock Prize (1995),Royal Medal (1996),Cole Prize (1996), Wolf Prize (1996),King Faisal Prize (1998) andShaw Prize (2005)
• Edward Witten – professor emeritus of physics, Fields Medalist, 2012Fundamental Physics Prize
• Andrew Yao – computer scientist, winner of the 2000 Turing award

• Amir Ali Ahmadi – professor of operations research and financial engineering
• Robert Calderbank – professor ofelectrical engineering, mathematics, andapplied mathematics
• Matias D. Cattaneo - professor of operations research and financial engineering
• Erhan Çınlar – professor ofoperations research andfinancial engineering
• Ahmed Cemal Eringen – professor ofmechanical andaerospace engineering, leading expert inelasticity theory,continuum mechanics, andplasticity
• Jianqing Fan – professor of operations research and financial engineering
• Jason W. Fleischer – associate professor of electrical engineering^[211]
• Claire F. Gmachl – professor of electrical engineering
• Brian Kernighan – professor ofcomputer science and co-author ofThe C Programming Language
• William A. Massey – professor of operations research and financial engineering
• Robert Sedgewick – professor ofcomputer science
• Alexander Smits – professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, leading expert onturbulence andfluid dynamics
• Howard Stone – professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and chemical engineering, leading expert in fluid dynamics
• Robert J. Vanderbei – professor of operations research and financial engineering, mathematics,astrophysics,computer science

• Gerhard Andlinger, A.B. 1952 – founder of Andlinger & Company
• James T. Aubrey, A.B. 1941 – president ofCBS andMGM
• Norman Augustine, B.S.E. 1957– former CEO ofLockheed Martin
• Ben Baldanza, M.P.A./U.R.P. 1986 – former CEO ofSpirit Airlines
• Alexander Bannwart, L.L.B 1906^[212]
• Jeff Bezos, B.S.E. 1986 – founder ofAmazon.com
• Frank Biondi, A.B. 1966 – former chairman ofViacom
• John C. Bogle, A.B. 1951 – former founder and CEO ofThe Vanguard Group, which pioneered theindex fund
• Charles W. Coker, A.B. 1955 – former CEO and chairman ofSonoco Products
• Archibald Crossley, B. 1950 – pollster and pioneer in the field ofpublic opinion research
• Franklin D'Olier, A.B. 1898 – former president and chairman ofPrudential Insurance Company; first National Commander of theAmerican Legion (1919–20)
• Steve Feinberg, A.B. 1982 – billionaire financier and a top economic adviser to PresidentDonald Trump
• David Siegel (computer scientist), B.S.E. 1983 – co-founder and co-chairman ofTwo Sigma
• George M. Ferris Jr. – investment banker and philanthropist
• Joseph Fichera, B. 1976 – founder and CEO of Saber Partners;auction rate securities expert
• Harvey S. Firestone Jr., class of 1920 – former CEO ofFirestone Tire and Rubber Company
• Malcolm Forbes, A.B. 1941 – businessman and publisher
• Steve Forbes, A.B. 1970 – son of Malcolm Forbes; businessman and publisher ofForbes magazine
• William Clay Ford Jr., 1979 – executive chairman of the board of directors Ford Motor Company
• Thomas F. Frist, III, 1991 – investor
• William Fung, B.S.E. 1970 – managing director of Li & Fung (Trading) Ltd.
• Phil Goldman, B.S.E. 1986 – founder ofWebTV
• Bob Hugin, A.B. 1976 – former chairman of Celgene, and Republican nominee for New Jersey 2018 senate race.
• Jaquelin H. Hume, B. 1928 – founder ofBasic American Foods, conservative philanthropist
• Nathan Hubbard, B.A. – business and music executive, former CEO of Ticketmaster
• Lee Iacocca, M.S. 1946 – automobile executive and former chairman and chief executive officer,Chrysler^[213]
• Carl Icahn, A.B. 1957 – corporate raider
• Andrea Jung, A.B. 1979 –CEO ofAvon Products
• John Katzman, A.B. Architecture 1981 – founder ofThe Princeton Review
• F. Thomson Leighton, B.S.E. 1978 – cofounder ofAkamai Technologies
• Arthur D. Levinson, Ph.D. 1977 – chairman ofApple Inc. (2011–present); chairman ofGenentech (1999–2014), CEOCalico
• Peter B. Lewis, A.B. 1955 – chairman ofProgressive
• Joseph Wharton Lippincott Jr. – head of Philadelphia publisherJ. B. Lippincott & Co.
• Donold Lourie, A.B. 1922 – president and CEO ofQuaker Oats Company
• Aaron Marcus, B.A. 1965 – foundedAaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. in 1982
• Ginna Marston, B.A. 1980 –public service advertising^[214][215]
• James S. McDonnell, M.S. 1921 – foundedMcDonnell Aircraft Corporation in 1939
• Nick Morgan, A.B. English literature 1976 – speaking coach and author^[216]: 229
• Robert S. Murley, B.A. 1972 – chairman of the Investment Banking ofCredit Suisse Securities and chairman of theEducational Testing Service (ETS).^[217]
• Ellen Pao – CEO ofReddit
• Sandi Peterson, M.P.A. – worldwide chairman,Johnson & Johnson
• Louis Rukeyser, A.B. 1954 – former host ofWall $treet Week and business commentator
• Eric Schmidt, B.S.E. 1976 – formerCEO ofGoogle; 136th wealthiest person in the world in 2011
• Jeffery A. Smisek, A.B. Economics 1976 –CEO ofUnited Continental Holdings
• Tad Smith – CEO,Sotheby's^[218]
• Jon Steinberg, B.A. 1999 – president and COOofBuzzFeed
• Rawleigh Warner Jr., A.B. 1944 – former president, CEO and chairman ofMobil
• John Weinberg, A.B. 1948 – head ofGoldman Sachs from 1976 to 1990
• Meg Whitman, A.B. 1977 –CEO ofeBay andHewlett-Packard
• Sir Gordon Wu, B.S.E. Civil Engineering 1958 – founder and chairman ofHopewell Holdings Ltd
• Stockton Rush, BS 1984 –CEO ofOceanGate

Here are listed alumni who made notable contributions to science and technology outside academia.

• James C. Adamson, M.S.E. 1977
• Daniel T. Barry, M.A. 1977, M.S.E. 1977, Ph.D. 1980
• Brian Binnie, M.S.E. 1978
• Pete Conrad Jr., B.S.E. 1953, M.A. 1966, only Princeton graduate towalk on the Moon.
• Gerald Carr, M.S.E. 1962
• Gregory T. Linteris, B.S.E. 1979, Ph.D. 1990

• Emily Blumberg, A.B. 1977 – infectious disease physician
• Gerhard Fankhauser (1901–1981) embryologist, professor from 1931 to 1969.^[219]
• Donna M. Fernandes M.Sc. 1984, Ph.D. 1988, president and CEOBuffalo Zoo 2000 – 2017.

• Sridhar Vembu, Ph.D. 1994 – founder and CEO of zoho corporation
• Hal Abelson, A.B. 1969 – directed implementation of theLogo programming language for theApple II; professor of electrical engineering and computer science atMIT
• Yitzhak Apeloig (born 1944) – Israelicomputational chemistry professor and president of theTechnion
• Daniel Barringer, A.B. 1879 – geologist
• David R. Boggs, B.S.E. 1972 – co-inventor (with Robert Metcalfe) ofEthernet
• Henry Crew, A.B. 1882 – physicist; president of theAmerican Physical Society in 1909
• Thomas C. Hanks, 1966 – seismologist, introducedMoment magnitude scale to measure earthquakes
• William Heidbrink, Ph.D. 1984 –plasma physicist
• John D. Hunter, A.B. 1990 –neurobiology^[220]
• Lee Iacocca, M.S. 1946 – automobile executive and former chairman and chief executive officer,Chrysler^[213]
• Ernest Lester Jones, A.B. 1898 – head of theUnited States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1914 until his death in 1929^[221]
• Susan Landau, A.B. 1976 – mathematician and cybersecurity policy expert
• Yueh-Lin Loo, Ph.D. 2001 – chemical engineer
• William C. Martin, Ph.D. 1956 – atomic spectroscopist
• Andreas Mandelis, Ph.D. 1980 – expert onphotonics
• Wilder Penfield, 1913 – Canadian neurosurgeon
• John Warner, Ph.D. 1988 – chemist, one of the founders of the field ofgreen chemistry
• Stephen A. Fulling, M.S. in 1969 and Ph.D. in 1972 – theoretical physicist known for preliminary work that led to the discovery of theUnruh effect (also known as the Fulling-Davies-Unruh effect).^[222]

• A. Scott Berg, A.B. 1971 – Pulitzer Prize winner for biography ofCharles Lindbergh, winner of theNational Book Award for biography ofMax Perkins^[231]
• Robert Caro, A.B. 1957 – two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner forThe Power Broker andMaster of the Senate^[232]
• George F. Kennan, A.B. 1925 – two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for history in 1957 and biography in 1968;Cold War diplomat; architect of "containment" strategy (also listed inGovernment: Other)^[233]
• Galway Kinnell, A.B. 1948 – Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet
• Arthur Krock, A.B. 1908 – two-time Pulitzer Prize winner while writing forThe New York Times in the 1930s
• John Matteson, A.B. 1983 – Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography in 2008 forEden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
• Charles McIlwain, A.B.1894 – Pulitzer Prize for history in 1924; professor at Princeton
• John McPhee, A.B. 1953 – Humanities Council professor, 1999 Pulitzer Prize recipient^[234]
• James M. McPherson – Professor of History; Pulitzer Prize winner in 1989 forBattle Cry of Freedom
• W. S. Merwin, A.B. 1948 – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator^[235]
• Steven Naifeh, A.B. 1974 – Pulitzer Prize for biography or autobiography in 1991 forJackson Pollock: An American Saga
• Eugene O'Neill, class of 1910 (did not graduate) – Nobel laureate (Literature 1936), four-time Pulitzer Prize winner
• Ralph Barton Perry, A.B. 1896 – Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1936, professor at Harvard University^[236]
• Ernest Poole, A.B. 1902 – Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1918^[237]
• David Remnick, A.B. 1981 – Pulitzer Prize Winner for general nonfiction in 1994 forLenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire; general editor ofThe New Yorkermagazine since 1998
• Booth Tarkington, A.B. 1893 – two-timePulitzer Prize-winning novelist forThe Magnificent Ambersons andAlice Adams^[238]
• William W. Warner, 1943 – science writer, Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 1977 forBeautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay
• Thornton Wilder M.A. 1925 – three-timePulitzer Prize-winner, once for fiction and twice for drama; National Book Award winner;Our Town premiered at Princeton
• George F. Will, Ph.D. 1968 –Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977
• Jesse Lynch Williams, A.B. 1892 – Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1918^[239]

• Joel Achenbach, A.B. 1982 – writer forThe Washington Post and author of thePost's Achenblog
• R. W. Apple Jr., A.B. 1957 – writer forThe New York Times^[240]
• Hamilton Fish Armstrong, A.B. 1914 – editor ofForeign Policy
• William Attwood, A.B. 1941 – U.S. Ambassador and publisher ofNewsday
• Kate Betts, A.B. 1986 – editor-in-chief ofHarper's Bazaar
• John Brooks, A.B. 1942 – author and staff member,The New Yorker
• Robert Caro, A.B. 1957 –Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction writer
• Patrick Chovanec, A.B. 1993 – commentator on theeconomy of China in Western media
• Lisa R. Cohen – Ferris professor ofjournalism,Emmy-winning television producer, author
• Burton Crane, 1922 –The New York Times foreign correspondent and financial author
• Bosley Crowther, A.B. 1928 – film critic atThe New York Times
• Frank Deford, A.B. 1962 – writer forSports Illustrated; broadcaster on U.S. radio and television^[241]
• James D. Ewing, 1938 – newspaper publisher, government reform advocate and philanthropist^[242]
• Edward Felsenthal, A.B. 1988 - Executive Chairman,Time^[243]
• Marc Fisher – writer forThe Washington Post
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, A.B. 1917 – novelist and short story author
• Justin Fox (born 1964) – financial journalist, commentator, and writer
• Barton Gellman, A.B. 1982 – editor atThe Washington Post andPulitzer Prize winner
• Charlie Gibson, A.B. 1965 – journalist, formerGood Morning America host, anchor ofABC World News Tonight
• Robert Hilferty, A.B. 1982 – writer forBloomberg News,New York,The New York Times,Opera News, andThe Village Voice^[244]
• Julia Ioffe (2005) – Russian-born American journalist
• Olivier Kamanda, B.S.E 2003 – editor,Foreign Policy Digest
• Donald Kirk, A.B. 1959 – national correspondent,Chicago Tribune
• Rick Klein, A.B. 1998 – Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief, ABC News
• Richard Kluger, A.B. 1956 – Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist and book publisher
• John B. Oakes, A.B. 1934 – editorial page editor,The New York Times
• Don Oberdorfer, A.B. 1952 – writer forThe Washington Post, current professor atJohns Hopkins University
• Alexis Okeowo, 2006 – staff writer atThe New Yorker
• Norimitsu Onishi, A.B. 1992 – reporter forThe New York Times
• Ramesh Ponnuru, A.B. 1995 – editor ofNational Review
• Paul Raushenbush, F. 2003–2011 – Editor ofHuffington Post Religion
• T.R. Reid, A.B. 1966 – former correspondent,The Washington Post; bestselling nonfiction author
• Maria Ressa, A.B. 1986 – 2021Nobel Peace Prize laureate,Rappler CEO, included in theTime'sPerson of the Year 2018
• James Ridgeway, A.B. 1959 – editor and writer,New Republic andThe Village Voice
• Rick Stengel, A.B. 1977 – managing editor ofTime
• John Stossel, A.B. 1969 – ABC News anchor/correspondent
• Annalyn Swan, A.B. 1973 – co-author of 2005Pulitzer Prize-winningDe Kooning: An American Master
• Katrina vanden Heuvel, A.B. 1981 – editor ofThe Nation
• Grant Wahl, A.B. 1996 — sports journalist forSports Illustrated
• Christine Whelan, A.B. 1999 – contributor toThe Wall Street Journal and others, author ofWhy Smart Men Marry Smart Women
• Alexander Wolff, A.B. 1979 – writer forSports Illustrated
• Robert Sterling Yard, B.A. 1883 – journalist for theNew York Sun andNew York Herald; editor-in-chief ofThe Century Magazine; founder and first president ofThe Wilderness Society

• Kwesi Adofo-Mensah –General Manager for theMinnesota Vikings
• Bella Alarie, A.B. 2020 – starting professional basketball career in 2020 with the WNBA'sDallas Wings
• Hobey Baker, A.B. 1914 –ice hockey player; college hockey's top individual award is named in his memory
• Carl Barisich – former professional football player,Cleveland Browns andMiami Dolphins
• Danny Barnes – professional baseballpitcher
• Amir Bell (born 1996) – basketball player in theIsrael Basketball Premier League
• Moe Berg, A.B. 1923 – professionalbaseball player andspy
• David Blatt, A.B. 1981 – Israeli-American basketball player and coach (most recently, for theCleveland Cavaliers)
• Arthur Bluethenthal, 1913 – All-American football player; decorated World War I pilot
• Bill Bradley, A.B. 1965 – formerbasketball star; member of theBasketball Hall of Fame; formerU.S. Senator
• Bob Bradley, A.B. 1980 – US National Soccer Coach and MLS Cup-winning coach
• Andrew Calof – ice hockey player
• Devin Cannady – professional basketball player with theSouth Bay Lakers
• Karl Chandler – former professional football player,New York Giants andDetroit Lions
• Mike Chernoff –Cleveland Indians general manager
• Geep Chryst – quarterbacks coach,San Francisco 49ers
• Mike Condon – professional hockey goaltender with theOttawa Senators
• Jon Dekker – professional football player,Pittsburgh Steelers
• Emerson Dickman – baseball coach (1949–51); his teams won two Eastern League championships and tied one, as the 1951 team reached the College World Series
• Pablo Eisenberg (born 1932) – scholar, social justice advocate, and tennis player
• Keith Elias, A.B. 1993 – former professional football player in theNational Football League
• Jonathan Erlichman, A.B. 2012 — Process and Analytics Coach,Tampa Bay Rays; first analytics coach in the history ofMajor League Baseball
• Paul Fentress, 1936 – Olympic field hockey player
• John Fisher, A.B. 1983 – owner,Oakland Athletics
• Jason Garrett – former professional football player, offensive coordinator, interim head coach, head coach (2010–19) for theDallas Cowboys
• Charlie Gogolak – former professional football player,Washington Redskins andNew England Patriots
• Wycliffe Grousbeck, A.B. 1983 – CEO, governor, and co-owner,Boston Celtics
• Jeff Halpern, A.B. 1999 – currentNHL player; plays for the NHL teamLos Angeles Kings
• Tora Harris, 2002 – Olympic high jumper
• Sara Hendershot, A.B. 2010 – rower at the 2012 Summer Olympics^[245]
• Armond Hill – assistant coach, Los Angeles Clippers; former NBA basketball player, 1976–84
• Red Howard – football player
• Ariel Hsing – Olympic table tennis player
• Lynn Jennings, A.B. 1983 – Olympic runner, three-time world cross country champion, member of National Distance Running Hall of Fame
• Dick Kazmaier, A.B. 1952 –Heisman Trophy winner 1952
• Zak Keasey – former professional football player,San Francisco 49ers
• Chloe Kim – Olympic snowboarder
• Andrea Leand – tennis player
• Donold Lourie, A.B. 1922 –College Football Hall of Fame inductee
• Larry Lucchino, A.B. 1967 – president and CEO of theBoston Red Sox
• Tyler Lussi, A.B. 2017 – professional soccer player, winner of the 2017 NWSL championship withPortland Thorns FC
• Jesse Marsch, A.B. 1995 – professional soccer player, winner of three MLS championships withD.C. United and theChicago Fire
• Matt McDonald, B.S. 2015 – distance runner^[246]
• Rich McKay, A.B. 1981 – president and general manager, Atlanta Falcons
• Frank McPhee – football player
• Steve Mills (sports executive) – president of the New York Knicks
• Steve Meister – tennis player
• John Messuri – former professional hockey player, Princeton Tigers all-time leading scorer
• Abby Meyers (born 1999) – basketball player for theDallas Wings of theWomen's National Basketball Association
• Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum – American-born German showjumper
• Edwin Mortimer Hopkins – first ever full-time head football coach at theUniversity of Kansas, also a long-time English professor at the school
• Cook Neilson, A.B. 1967 – motorcycle racer, member of American Motorcycle Association Hall of Fame
• Dennis Norman, 2001 – former professional football player,San Diego Chargers
• Ross Ohlendorf – formerMLB pitcher for theWashington Nationals
• George Parros – professional ice hockey player, for the 2007 Stanley Cup championAnaheim Ducks
• Geoff Petrie, A.B. 1970 – formerNBA player; current president of basketball operations for theSacramento Kings
• Crista Samaras, A.B. 1999 – former lacrosse player and coach
• Mark Shapiro –Toronto Blue Jays general manager; two-timeMLB Executive of the Year
• Brian Taylor – former ABA and NBA basketball player, 1972–82
• John Thompson III, 1988 – basketball coach atGeorgetown
• Soren Thompson, 2005 – fencer,NCAA épée champion, Junior Olympic champion,Maccabiah Games silver medalist, 2x Olympic fencer, team world champion.
• Ross Tucker, 2000 – former professional football player, sports columnist
• Bob Tufts – Major League Baseball pitcher
• Terdema Ussery, A.B. 1981 – president and CEO of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks basketball team
• Will Venable – outfielder for theTexas Rangers
• Maia Weintraub (born 2002) – NCAA foil champion, national champion, and Olympic fencer
• Spencer Weisz (born 1995) – American-Israeli basketball player forHapoel Haifa of theIsraeli Premier League
• Kevin Westgarth –NHL player; plays for the NHL teamLos Angeles Kings
• Lauren Wilkinson (rower) –2012 Summer Olympics silver medalist
• Erica Wu – Olympic table tennis player
• Chris Young – starting pitcher for theKansas City Royals
• Ben Zinn – international soccer player and academic atGeorgia Tech

• Stan Allen M.Arch. – dean of School of Architecture, Princeton University
• Leslie Ayres – architect, 1926 winner of Princeton Prize in Architecture
• Merritt Bucholz – partner of Irish-based Bucholz | McEvoy Architects, and Professor of Architecture atUniversity of Limerick
• Thomas S. Buechner – founding director of theCorning Museum of Glass; director of theBrooklyn Museum^[248]
• Johanna Burton, Director of theMuseum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• Donald Drew Egbert, A.B. 1924, M.Arch. 1927 – art historian and Princeton professor
• Michael Graves – architect, designer and Princeton professor
• Jodi Hauptman, A.B. 1986 – art historian and curator
• Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri, A.B. Anthropology – photographer, director and digital artist, star ofBravo's 2010 docu-seriesDouble Exposure about her photography
• Jim Lee, A.B. Psychology 1986 – comic book artist, known for work onX-Men,Batman; a founder ofImage Comics
• Bill Pierce, A.B. 1957 – freelance photographer forTime
• Demetri Porphyrios, M.Arch. 1974, Ph.D. 1980 – architect and architectural theorist
• Frank Stella – artist
• William Turnbull Jr. – architect andFellow of the American Institute of Architects
• Margaret Rose Vendryes Ph.D. 1997 – visual artist, curator, and art historian
• Robert Venturi, A.B. 1947, M.F.A. 1950 – architect,Pritzker Prize laureate 1991
• Marion Sims Wyeth – architect ofMar-a-Lago and other mansions

• Thomas B. Craighead – Presbyterian minister, president of Davidson Academy and Cumberland College inNashville, Tennessee^[249]
• Collins Denny Jr., 1921 – pro-segregationist lawyer^[250]
• David W. Doyle, '49 – Central Intelligence Agency officer; author^{[citation needed]}
• Cate Edwards, '04 – daughter of two-time presidential candidate and 2004Democratic Vice Presidential nomineeJohn Edwards
• John Frame, '61 –Reformed theologian
• Donald B. Fullerton, 1913 – missionary and founder of thePrinceton Christian Fellowship
• Zelda Harris, '07 – former child actress, known for her starring role in theSpike LeedramedyCrooklyn
• James Hogue – attended Princeton under the fraudulent persona of "Alexi Indris Santana", 1989–1991
• Dario Hunter, '04 – the first Muslim-born person to be ordained a rabbi^[251]
• Jeffrey R. MacDonald, '65 – subject of Joe McGinnis' best seller "Fatal Vision"; Green Beret physician convicted of murdering his wife and two children at Fort Bragg
• Joseph (Lyle) Menendez – convicted murderer, left Princeton in 1988 followingplagiarism charges
• Michelle Obama, '85 –First Lady of the United States, wife ofUnited States PresidentBarack Obama
• Zhuo Qun Song, '19 – currently the most highly decoratedInternational Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) contestant, with five gold medals and one bronze medal
• Richard Aaker Trythall, '63 – composer and pianist, winner of the 1964Rome Prize in Musical Composition, fellow and music liaison of theAmerican Academy in Rome^[252]
• Peter Aaron Van Dorn – lawyer, judge and planter fromMississippi
• John C. Whitcomb, '48 –young earth creationist

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• 24 – PresidentCharles Logan graduated from Princeton University^[253]
• 30 Rock –Jack Donaghy is an alumnus; multiple episodes center on his college experience
• Across the Universe – the character Max attends Princeton, but drops out
• Atlanta — Earnest "Earn" Marks attended Princeton University before dropping out
• Batman Begins –Bruce Wayne attended Princeton University, although he chose not to continue his education there after returning home (it is unknown whether he had completed his undergraduate school education and was attending graduate school or if he was dropping out of college)^[254]
• A Beautiful Mind – tells of the mathematicianJohn Forbes Nash Jr.'s initial days at Princeton University (Although the film is a fictionalized biography, in real life Nash did receive his doctorate from Princeton and was a Princeton professor)^[255]
• The Big Bang Theory –Leonard Hofstadter attended and graduated from Princeton, andAmy Farrah Fowler served a fellowship there untilSheldon Cooper proposed to her.
• Boardwalk Empire –James "Jimmy" Darmody attended Princeton, but dropped out to enlist inWorld War I, disappointing his guardianEnoch Thompson
• Burn After Reading – Osbourne Cox, the lead played byJohn Malkovich, was a Princeton Graduate Class of 1973, and in a scene at a fictional Princeton Club, leads a fast-tempo rendition of Princeton's anthem,Old Nassau^[256]
• The Caine Mutiny – Willis Seward "Willie" Keith graduated from Princeton University before joining the Navy
• The Change-Up – Dave Lockwood graduated from Princeton University
• Charles in Charge – Charles gets accepted as a graduate student in Princeton
• A Cinderella Story – the characters played byHilary Duff andChad Michael Murray will be attending Princeton at the end of the movie^[257]
• Commander in Chief – Kelly Ludlow, the press secretary played byEver Carradine has graduated from Princeton
• The Cosby Show – Sondra Huxtable and her (future) husband Elvin Tibideaux of graduated from Princeton^[258]
• Cruel Intentions – Marci Greenbaum, Tara Reid's character was accepted into Princeton. Sebastian, the protagonist, manipulated her.
• Designated Survivor – Tom Kirkman,Secretary of Housing and Urban Development turned President of the United States who was nameddesignated survivor for the State of the Union address, and rose to the presidency after a terrorist attack killed the entireline of succession, was a Princeton alumni.
• Doogie Howser, M.D. – the namesake child prodigy graduated from Princeton at the age of 10 in 1983 and received his medical license at age 14^[259]
• Everwood – Amy Abbott is accepted to Princeton^[260]
• Family Ties – "YoungRepublican"Alex P. Keaton (Michael J. Fox) spends the first two seasons of the series preparing to attend Princeton
• The Flintstones – in the 1961 episode entitled "Flintstone of Prinstone", Fred briefly attends Princeton's prehistoric counterpart, "Prinstone University", as a part-time student; in the 1964 episode "Cinderellastone", Fred's dream character also attended Prinstone
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air – Princeton is Philip's alma mater; his son, Carlton, enrolls in Princeton by the final episode^[261]
• Gilmore Girls – Rory Gilmore is accepted into Princeton University
• The Girl Next Door – Eli is mentioned as having been accepted to Princeton
• Good in Bed, novel byJennifer Weiner – protagonist Cannie Shapiro is a Princeton alumna
• In Her Shoes (1991), a novel byJennifer Weiner – Rose Feller is a Princeton grad. Her younger sister Maggie camps out in a Princeton library
• Leatherheads – the character ofCarter Rutherford is a star Princeton quarterback^[262]
• Left Behind series – characterCameron "Buck" Williams is a Princeton grad
• Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, science fiction novel byH. Beam Piper – Calvin Morrison had been a theology student at Princeton, but dropped out to join the U.S. Army and fight in theKorean War; He later becomes an officer with the Pennsylvania State Police and transported to another time-line
• Mad Men –Paul Kinsey is a Princeton graduate (class of '55) and in "My Old Kentucky Home" (season 3, episode 3), Kinsey's classmate Jeffrey, a drug dealer, reminisces about theTigertones a cappella group^[263]
• Mars Attacks! – President James Dale (Jack Nicholson) is a Princeton alumnus
• The Mindy Project – the main character, Mindy Lahiri, attended Princeton
• Never Have I Ever—the main character, Devi Vishwakumar, is accepted into Princeton University.
• No Hard Feelings – The film is set the summer before Percy's (played byAndrew Barth Feldman) freshman year at Princeton.
• Numb3rs – the characters ofCharlie Eppes andLarry Fleinhardt are Princeton Alumni (Charlie graduated at the age of 16 and Larry at the age of 19)
• The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement –Anne Hathaway's character has graduated from Princeton^[264]
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist, novel – the characters Changez and Erica are Princeton grads
• Risky Business – Tom Cruise's character gets into Princeton after an unconventional interview at his own home
• Rubber – one of the spectators ("film buff Ethan") appears wearing an orange-embroidered black baseball cap reading "PRINCETO"
• The Rule of Four, mystery novel – the protagonists are Princeton students and the Art Museum and its collections play a central role in the plot
• Salt – Angelina Jolie's character Evelyn Salt went to Princeton
• Scandal (TV series)—Olivia Pope graduated from Princeton.
• The Simpsons – Cecil Terwilliger, the brother ofSideshow Bob, is an alumnus (Sideshow Bob refers to it as the years Cecil spent in Clown College);^[265]Snake also attended, but took a year off, presumably never to return
• South Pacific – Lt. Joe Cable attended Princeton
• South Park –Mayor McDaniels^[266]
• The Sun Also Rises – Robert Cohn is a Princeton graduate
• The Talented Mr. Ripley – Dickie Greenleaf (played byJude Law) has attended Princeton,^[267] and the title character Tom Ripley pretends he is a Princeton alumnus.^[268]
• There's Something About Mary – Mary attended Princeton University,^[269] as did her ex-boyfriend "Woogie" who was also holder of a scholarship from Princeton^[270]
• Thirtysomething – Hope Murdoch Steadman, portrayed byMel Harris, graduated from Princeton and Mel's real-life father (Warren Harris) was a football coach at Princeton in the 1970s^[271]
• This Side of Paradise, semi-autobiographical novel byF. Scott Fitzgerald – a Princeton alumnus himself, the protagonist Amory Blaine attends Princeton^[272][273]
• The War of the Worlds, 1938 radio adaptation Professor Richard Pierson of the Princeton Observatory, portrayed byOrson Welles
• Watchmen, a graphic novel created by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins – Dr. Jon Osterman/Doctor Manhattan, born 1929, attended Princeton University in 1948–1958 and graduated with a Ph.D. in atomic physics
• Weeds – the character Megan gets accepted into Princeton
• The West Wing – former Deputy Communications DirectorSam Seaborn (Rob Lowe) is amagna cum laude Princeton graduate^[274]

• History of Princeton University
• List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Princeton University as alumni or faculty